Social policy and the humane economy

George Kararach ()

Chapter 23 in Liberating Economics From Ideologies and Dystopia, 2025, pp 316-327 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: To establish a humane society, modern economic policies must be read as social policy or the establishment of a social economy. Social policy is critical in guiding the modern economy to meet human needs for security, education, work, health and well-being. Social policy addresses how states and societies respond to global challenges of social, demographic and economic change, and of poverty, migration and globalisation. Social policy analyses the different roles of national governments, the family, civil society, the market and international organisations in providing services and support across the life course from childhood to old age. These services and support include child and family support, schooling and education, housing and neighbourhood renewal, income maintenance and poverty reduction, unemployment support and training, pensions, health and social care. Social policy aims to identify and find ways of reducing inequalities in access to services and support between social groups defined by socio-economic status, race, ethnicity, migration status, gender, sexual orientation, disability and age, and between countries. Centre in the heterodox approach is the pre-eminent role of the state in ensuring that most of the population has access to basic social services and markets are subordinated to the real of the society.

Keywords: Humane society; Social policies; Human security; Civil society; Markets; International organisations; Service provisions; Circular economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035316175
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